Adding default tools

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Adding default tools

Post by andrew » Tue Mar 15, 2022 10:36 am

From a QCAD/CAM user:
How can I add default tools to each new drawing?

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Re: Adding default tools

Post by andrew » Tue Mar 15, 2022 10:41 am

QCAD/CAM supports templates per post processor:
- Create a new, empty document in QCAD/CAM.
- Choose the desired post processor at the top.
- Add the default tools.
- Save this drawing into the QCAD/CAM "postprocessors" directory with the same name as the chosen post processor file. For example for post processor "GCodeMM.js", you would save as "GCodeMM.dxf".
- The tools of this DXF file are merged into the current drawing as soon as that post processor is chosen, adding the tools as default tools to each drawing using that post processor.

You can also add for example a rectangle to this DXF template file to represent the work area of your machine to each drawing. All entities in the main drawing of the DXF template file are added to a separate, locked, unsnappable layer.

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